If we move away from corroboration—other members are right to say that we should ca canny, take our time and do it properly rather than legislate in haste and repent at leisure—as Stewart Maxwell and others have said, we must look closely at the whole concept of not only the balance of majority verdicts but whether we should have majority verdicts at all or how that system would operate, because we could not leave the present system in place if we were to do away with corroboration.We must reflect on the words of the Law Society of Scotland, which said that if we are to do away with some fundamental tenets of the system, there will need to be a“wider and broader based review of the law of evidence and criminal procedure”That is not to say that we should not look at the matter, but that we should take our time and do it properly.16:26...